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Yeah, but it's not like he's overpaid for what he can do, he just shouldn't have been the only guy we brought in.
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ravidubey
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McHamstring was a "political" signing. Convince Joe Fan that the Cowboys were on the job (even though the cupboard was bare). If he actually had anything left, so much the better.
The Cowboys inner circle had deluded themselves into thinking Joseph Randle was some kind of 1400 yard dynamo in waiting and thus truly felt they had already solved their problems with a 5th round "steal" in 2013. They were giddy with themselves and leaking this to whomever would listen.
Joseph Randle is why the Cowboys didn't draft anyone when everyone (except maybe c-rock) was screaming at them to do so.
They were so up their own asses about their offensive line and their draft gem Randle that they deluded themselves into believing the stupid stats based off 60-odd carries. They began playing down DeMarco Murray's amazing season and distancing themselves from him early in the offseason.
It was a lunacy we're paying the price for in a season that's borderline lost. We'd have been OK with Weeden if we could actually run the damned football when we need to.
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I had my RBs I wanted. No question about it. But I also think and continue to think McFadden is a waste of space. Dunbar I hated too but I've at least seen the utility of him as a receiver. Which meant I always thought we needed a RB to pair with Randle. I'm hoping now that it will be Christine Michael.
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Agreed. He can't be worse. Pound him until he can't stand then run Randle all while throwing to McFadden.
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He won't do any better unless the Dallas offense changes their game plans.
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Yeah but it's not like we signed him for 5 mil. He's making basically the league minimum, and to be a 3rd down block and catch back, that's completely fine. It's not a bad signing for value, just for his intended role.
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The issue is that we used to get 4-6 yards on first down running last year.
We don't get that this year it seems.
That down and distance thing has a lot to do with situational football that we aren't that great at this season.
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But last year we averaged over 6.8 yards to go on third down if I'm reading that stat correctly. How is that possible if we were consistently getting 4-6 on first down?
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Penalties can skew the stats. The offense had their share of those.
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Easy, on some plays we didn't get 4-6 yards, we got 3 or less yards. Thus, second and 7 or more. It's the new math.
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Because when we got 4+ yards on first down we rarely didn't convert on 2nd down. thus we only got to 3rd down when one or both of the previous downs was a disaster...
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The stat math can also be 6 yards on first down a holding penalty then 3 yards on next first down. 4 yards on second down leaving third and 13. The exercise presented above isn't an absolute number but almost anything can become what doesn't add up with a simple exercise of first Plus second minus from 10 equals third down distance
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Sure but are we going to act like that's what happened on our vast majoirty of third downs? We had lots of third downs last year, Romo just converted them like a god.
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Had to overcome a lot of penalties also.
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We were 20th in yards of penalties against. So not exactly like we were anywhere close the worst or even top half of the NFL.
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I expect this season is not so good in that category.
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It sure seems like it. Our only saving grace this year may be that we haven't had any super long PI's that I can think of. I'm guessing the total number of penalties is pretty high.
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Penalties are way up across the NFL this year. Not sure if refs are calling the games tighter or what.
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